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Marijuana: Maryland pot decriminalization bill latest example of Amendment 64's impact

Yesterday, we highlighted a Pennsylvania proposal that mirrors Amendment 64, the Colorado measure whose proponents see as a template for nationwide marijuana reform. Today, a Maryland bill to decriminalize pot is the latest example of other states following in Colorado's footsteps -- but perhaps mov ... More >>

Jesse Morreale will reopen El Diablo, Sketch today after appeal victory

After a three-and-a-half hour hearing yesterday before the Board of Appeals that considers objections to decisions by the city's planning department, Jesse Morreale got the okay to immediately reopen his First Avenue Hotel building -- which had been closed by the city three weeks ago, slapped with n ... More >>

Rashida Jones on Celeste and Jesse Forever and her debut as a screenwriter

Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder' Sidney Goldfarb, hits New York

Hot Lunch Apostles, a play by Boulder poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb, will open at New York's La MaMa Ellen Stewart Theatre on March 1 as part of the fabled Off-off-Broadway theater's fifty-year celebration. Produced by the Talking Band, a collaborative group that spins evocative tapestries of ... More >>

Reader: I find matchmaker Rachel Greenwald's business appalling

Matchmakers offer tips on how to sell yourself -- and why a matchmaker can help

For "Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA," this week's feature, Westword talked to local matchmaker extraordinaire Rachel Greenwald about her business -- but what about her advice? In her first book, Find a Husband After 35 (Using What I Learned at Harvard Business ... More >>

Churchill's "Change" video makes us want to skate dance by ourselves like nobody's watching

​Have you seen the new Churchill video for "Change" yet? Directed by Tim Twinem of Velare Imaginarium (the same chap responsible for capturing the nuptials of Churchill's Tim Brun and his lovely wife Amy -- in reverse), the clip stars a handsomely dressed gentlemen in a Billy Jack fedora, a bl ... More >>

The 20 greatest geek albums

​If the geeks are really set to inherit the earth (that's the saying, right?), then it's time we highlight the musical offerings they have on the table. With Jonathan Coulton's Artificial Heart being released last week at PAX, it seems as good a time as any to look at our favorite albums about ... More >>

Top 10 names for Metro State better than Denver State University

Big logos below.​After an exciting year-long run-up, Metropolitan State College of Denver's Board of Trustees has announced their choice for the school's new moniker. And the winner is... Denver State University! The crowd goes... meh. What's that? Think we should stop bellyaching unless we h ... More >>

How poop is smarter than Jesus: Google Reading Level ranks 100 random things

​​ Google introduced a new way of filtering search results last week: By reading level. You type something in and it tells you how many results fall into one of levels. Fair enough: if you're writing a research paper on sexual health or something, and thoughtful information would normal ... More >>

Mexican Macro-economics

Inside Job is a stupefying account of the 2008 global economic meltdown

Hot Rize was bluegrass before bluegrass was cool

Tireless satire: For Tomfoolery, don't leave your brain at home

Temple Grandin, CSU prof, named one of Time's 100 most influential people

Photo courtesy Cornell UniversityTemple Grandin is keeping some impressive company.​It's been a nice year thus far for CSU professor/cow whisperer Temple Grandin. In February, she was portrayed by actress Claire Danes in Temple Grandin, a well-reviewed HBO biopic. And now, she's been named on ... More >>

Ronald McDonald gets Shanghaied

​Ronald McDonald is under fire in this country, with activists encouraging McDonald's to retire its longtime mascot. But in Shanghai, now home to a brand-new McDonald's University -- it's known as Hamburger U-- they're down with the clown. The Chinese people crave fast food, which is why McDo ... More >>

Josh Penry-John Morse idea to give university boards more leeway potentially dangerous

"Gee, I wish I could afford college."​Senate Majority Leader John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and Minority Leader Josh Penry, R-Grand Junction, are brainstorming ways to keep Colorado's colleges from suffocating amid crippling losses in revenue from the state. Atop the mount of potential soluti ... More >>

The Obama administration: a Colorado College cabal?

​Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism--it's been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wi ... More >>

Skip the Blue Moon, Crowley, and tap one of these other Colorado beers for the political slurp heard 'round the world

Blue Moon: Not the best beer for solving a national crisis.​If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country's centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race re ... More >>

Blue Moon rockets to the White House

Perfect for soothing racial tension.​The White House could get a little taste of Denver this week if President Barack Obama is able to pull off a meeting over beers Thursday between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge, Massachusetts police sergeant James Crowley, who arrested Gat ... More >>

The Mexican's got a beef with thick steaks

TV host Aaron Harber on why he should be Colorado's next Secretary of State

Aaron Harber. At present, twenty people have submitted applications for Colorado's Secretary of State job, including several big-name politicos: Andrew Romanoff, the term-limited speaker of Colorado's House of Representatives; Ken Gordon, the majority leader for the state senate; Rosemary Rodri ... More >>

Leeroy Jenkins Rocks ROFLCon, Snags Wired Mention

Delegating Denver #34 of 56: New Jersey

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Richistan, Colorado

D.A. Bluenose: "Let the Healing Begin"

Current | Laura Fayer

Exhibits at Rule and Robischon prove that abstraction isn’t dead.

Everybody Else

Carrick Moore Gerety formed this trio when the Push Kings came to shove.

Stinking Stereotypes

Rocket Man

David Grinspoon is popularizing science, one alien joke at a time.

All Gave Some

Sir! No Sir! recounts the GIs who refused to ride the killing machine.

Cirque du Something

The Secret Circus brings in the (offbeat) clowns.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 22, 2005

Evolution's Merry-Go-Round

Modern Muse forcefully revisits the suddenly timely Inherit the Wind.

Water You Thinking?

Swimming's smugly confessional tone dampens its appeal.

Throwing Fitz

The move to Fitzsimons was supposed to send CU's Health Sciences Center sailing into the 21st century. So why are so many doctors jumping ship?

The Beatdown

Don't start no stuff, won't be no stuff.

Monkey Business

CU's animal attraction isn't limited to recruiting parties.

Off Limits

Blame Canada

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 9, 2003

Mirror, Mirror

One man’s search for identity yields a sparkling documentary about his African heritage.

Off Limits

The smell of success

Life in Focus

For Deborah Copaken Kogen, every picture tells a story.

Bella Dinner

Missed Diagnosis

When a doctor makes a rare but horrible mistake, who should bear the scars?

Out of Africa

Brains Into Mush

Gone Loco

BOSTON BAKED BEINGS